Re: /var/cache/man/...
On 04/09/2014 07:14 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many
directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I
deleted them.
That was a mistake. You're new to this "sysadmin" stuff right? ;)
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The answer of course is that most people use characters and words from a
number of languages. Those extra man pages don't take up a lot of space.
/snip/
The only characters that anyone could reasonably need can be
formed by setting up a Compose key. That will allow you all
the diacritical marks for the Romance languages, the
umlauts and esstset for German, and some of the oddball stuff that
you see in the Scandinavian and Polish languages. It's unlikely that
you're going to need a Cyrillic or East Asian alphabet (of which there
are several--Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, probably more).
The Compose will also give you currency signs and some common
fractions.
(Some word processors have tables of symbols--things you wouldn't
find in any of the locales, like musical flat signs, some mathematical
operators, etc.)
Unless you are going to actually write in a language other than English,
you won't need any locale other than that.
--doug
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